This book explores the "Byzantine" islands of the late antique Mediterranean through different methodologies and a wide array of sources in comparative perspective. It deals with transversal themes centered on the peculiar political and economic structures of insular societies (such as the episcopate and the archontate or, in the case of Sicily, the theme). Reassessing the exaggerated space that the historiography on Byzantine islands has traditionally granted to literary and documentary sources, this book draws upon archaeological evidence that points instead to a less violent and disruptive phase in the islands' history as Late Antiquity passed into the early Middle Ages. The islands are also considered as hubs of connectivity where the Islamic and the Byzantine cultures encountered and heavily influenced the local "insular" political, economic, and social structures across the centuries.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2025
Copyrightjahr
2025
ISBN-Print
978-1-64189-048-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-367-2
ePub ISBN
9781802703665
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Beyond Medieval Europe
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
246
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
Maps Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
Introduction. Why Write a Book on Large Byzantine Islands (and Archipelagos)? Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 12
1. A Theory of Islands and the Byzantine Insular Worlds Kein Zugriff Seiten 13 - 52
2. Studying the Insular Worlds of Byzantium Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Kein Zugriff Seiten 53 - 76
3. Framing the Historiographical and Political Trajectories of Byzantine Insular Worlds Kein Zugriff Seiten 77 - 114
4. “Cities of Islands” and the Insular Countryside Kein Zugriff Seiten 115 - 160
5. The Insular Economy in the Transitional Period Kein Zugriff Seiten 161 - 184
